This blog covers mental health, drugs and psychotherapy with an emphasis on the role of family dysfunction in behavioral problems. It discusses how family systems issues have been denigrated in psychiatry in favor of a disease model for everything by a combination of greedy pharmaceutical and managed care insurance companies, naïve and corrupt experts, twisted science, and desperate parents who want to believe that their children have a brain disease to avoid an overwhelming sense of guilt.

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Thursday, November 1, 2018

Are your parents constantly trying
to control what you do or making incessant demands? Do they sometimes act in
hateful ways that make you want to run for the hills? Do they invalidate you by
questioning your intelligence, opinions, observations, or feelings?

In this new book, Dr. David
Allen—an academic psychiatrist who has studied family dysfunction for over
forty years—describes strategies for putting a stop to these repetitive problematic
interactions.

You will learn:

1.How
to construct a family history of emotional issues (a genogram) that will help you to finally make sense of your parents’
confusing and seemingly bizarre behavior.

2.How
to use this understanding to plan strategies and counter-strategies for disarming
your parents’ often formidable defenses in order to engage them in real problem
solving.

3.Effective
methods for countering the ways your parents play with logic to confuse you.

4.Effective
counter-strategies for 17 different tricks they use on you to get you to shut
up.

5.How
to block other relatives like siblings from getting in the way of your efforts.

6.How
your spouse or partner is embroiled in your family dysfunction, and strategies
for turning him or her from a roadblock into an ally in your efforts to
confront it.

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About Me

David M. Allen, M.D. is the author of the self-help book, Coping with Critical, Demanding, and Dysfunctional Parents: Powerful Strategies to Help Adult Children Maintain Boundaries and Stay Sane. He is also the author How Dysfunctional Families Spur Mental Disorders: A Balanced Approach to Resolve Problems and Reconcile Relationships. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the former Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, a position he held for 16 years. Additionally, he has done research into personality disorders and is a psychotherapy theorist. He is the author of three books for psychotherapists: A Family Systems Approach to Individual Psychotherapy, Deciphering Motivation in Psychotherapy, and Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients: an Integrated Approach, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is a former associate editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. He received his medical degree from U.C. San Francisco, and his psychiatric residency at the Los Angeles County - University of Southern California Medical Center.